The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 28, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,361 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1949 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 22 Lives Lost in Storm in Pacific Northwest Orange Bo COMMIES IN SMASH, CHUNGKING Spearheads Are Within 20 Miles-U.S. Makes Appeal on Hands Off, China (By the Associated Press) Red armies knocked on the door of Chungking, Chinese Nationalist capital, today. Chinese Communist spearheads smashed to within 20 miles of the isolated mountain stronghold. Japanese forces were never able to wrest it from Chiang| Kai-shek in World War IL The U.S. State Department, meantime, announced that a new Communist deportation order for Americans in China proba‘ly meant that Consul General Angus Ward and his Vice Consul, William N. Stokes, would soon be enroute| home. Both men were recently re- leased from a Red prison. U.S. DEMANDS At Lake Success the United States demanded today that the United Nations appeal to all countries—! including Russia—to keep hands oft | China and let the Chinese settle| their own problems. The American proposal was laid before the 59-nation political com- mittee of the General Assembly by U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Philip C. Jessup. It did not mention Russia by name but Jessup spoke at| length on Nationalist charges of Soviet interference. Jessup, speaking in a calm voice, expressed regret at the decision of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky not to-participate in the debate on China’s charges against Russia. RUSS BOQYCOTT Vishinsky himself continued to boycott the discussions, leaving only low-ranking members of the Soviet delegation at the table. The American proposal is much more mildly worded than a resolu- tion introduced ty China Saturdgy calling on all countries to refrain from recognizing the Communist regime of Mao Tze-tung based at Peiping. The Nationalist delegation, which is not recognized by Russia, sub- mitted a formal resolution last Saturday charging the Soviets with obstructing Nationalist control of Manchuria, and helping Chinese | Communists, They said this violated the U.N. Charter and a Chinese- Russian friendship treaty. RUSS AGGRESSION In Europe, as in Asia, centain- (Continued on Page 6) The Washington Merry - Go - Round Bv DREW PEARSON #Convrignt, 1949, by Bell Syndicate. Inc.) ASHINGTON—A visiting Lat-| in-American official, talking with General Eisenhower, made the re- mark: “Why don’t you Americans drop a few atom bombs on the Russians right away and get it over with?” Eisenhower wheeled on him and said: “Can you tell me where we would get the 30 million troops nec- essary to take and hold the Soviet Union after the bombs fell?” | Ike’s response is sympathetic of | the growing feeling among U. S. military men that the atom bomb is not a decisive weapon in itself. Russians’ New Radar Screen President Truman has just re- ceived a vitally important report on the subject of Russia's antiair- craft defenses—particularly her ra- dar network, ‘which has contributed to military skepticism about drop- | ping the atom bomb. This report carefully compiled| from sources inside the Soviet. re-| veals that the Russians have a first-rate radar warning system en- | circling all but a small portion of the Soviet Union. In, addition to this outer protective screen, they; have also constructed an inner cir- cle of radar defenses. ! This report contradicts an earl- | ier belief that the Russians had no| radar net to speak of. The report may also alter the entire American | strategic war plans. Until now, the[ joint chiefs of staff have relied | (Contlaued ou Page Fours China’s | . | forward. Hallas 'Please Keep Daddy Safe,’ Brownfield Children Pray | For Pilot Missing 84 Days LEWIS FAILS TO KEEP DATE NEW YORK, Nov. 28—(#—John L. Lewis today postponed for 25 tours a meeting of his 200-man United Mine Workers policy com- mittee without explanation. Members of the union group were ready to confer with their leader on the possible resumption of a soft coal strike Thursday when | they received word that Lewis was | detained elsewhere and could not | meet with them until 1 pm. (PST) tomorrow. SAILORS OF WEST COAST ARE VOTING ON NEW CONTRACTS SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28—(#— The €ailors Union of the Pacific votes at all west coast ports today on ratification of its new contract with the Pacific Maritime Associa- tion. An employer financed pension plan supported by 25 cents a day per man payments by the em- ployers, work penalty provisions estimated to yield each employed sailor an gdditional $20 a month and the giving of SUP members boat painting and chipping rights are major provisions. Agreement "y ne-otiators last week averted a threatened strike. Employers have centract. KETCHIKAN WIFE IS| KILLED IN WRECK DURING KELSO GALE KELSO, Wash., Nov. 8—®—A Ketchikan, Alaska, woman was fatally injured and her husband badly hurt Saturday night in the height of a gale sweeping across ‘Western Washington, She was Mrs. I. C. Ransome, 68. She and her husband were driv- ing on a vacation trip in the states when their -car struck a rain- ioosened rock that had rolled onto the Pacific highway five miles south of here. The automobile swerved across the road, out of control, and struck an embankment. Mrs. Ransome was thrown against the steering column, She died of chest injuries | yesterday. Her husband was hos- pitalized for shock and multiple injuries. The Ransomes had left -Seattle Saturday morning. approved the PILOTLESS PLANE TAKES OFF, CRASHES MT. OLIVE, IlL, Nov. 28—(»—A light plane took off without its pilot yesterday and flew 100 miles before it crashed. No one was hurt in the freak take-off and crash. Arthur Mayer, in charge of flights for an air service, said Jack Hallas of Galesburg landed the plane at Mt. Olive airport and went around the wing to look at the propellor. As he touched it, the motor started with a roar and the plane moved scrambled aside. The plane took off, climbed rapidly in a bank to the left and sailed out of sight. It crashed in a field about 100 miles from the craft’s starting point. The fact that the President is taking John Steelman to Florida with him is pretty good indication that he intends to do a lot of thinking, and possibly some acting, in the coal dispute. There are only three days to go in the coal truce. Today, John L. Lewis meets with his union policy committee in New York, i SEQUIM, Wash., Nov. 28.—(P— With quiet dignity, and very sol- emnly, two little heads bowed. Jenny Lee Brownfield, 10, and her brother, Francis Murl, 8, were say- ing their prayers for Daddy. At the knee of their grandmother, Mrs. Murl Brownfield, in the little white farmhouse near here, the youngsters pleaded for the safe re- turn of their aviator father, lost;ner in New York City Friday night. somewhere in the frozen wilds of Alaska. The father, Francis Brown- field, 31, has been missing in the Susitna River area north of An- chorage since September 5. Jenny and Young Francis prayed not only that their father might live, but for the welfare of their mother and four brothers living in Anchorage. With Mrs. Brownfield in the Alaskan town are Thomas, 6; Jerry, 4: Keith, 1'%, and Den- {nis, 6 months. Another baby is ex- pected in the spring. “I'm kind of worried about Dad- dy,” said Jenny, shyness masking some of the tragedy in her eyes.{have a certain amount of so-called|pegin at the end of Bridges' trial, | “But I think he’s safe in a cabin. ! security, | He can take care of himeslf.” “I think Daddy will come out all right,” said Francis, with a show of bravado. “I just do.” Some of the searchers think so, too, and at last reports flyers from the 10th Rescue Squadron of the Air Force were awaiting improved weather for a further search. Murl Brownfield, the youngsters’ grand- father, flew to Anchorage as soon as he learned his son was missing, and still is leading air and ground parties. In fact, Brownfield sold a little ‘house ‘he owned in Sequim Yo raise money to continue the search. Jones Gives Boost, Alaska Aviation Men FAIRBANKS, Alaska, HNov. 28— | anks to Auburn, Maine, Moore ar- #—“Practical aviation” was born i» Alaska and California, says a wember of the Civil Aeronautics Board. Harold Jones, CAB mem®er visit- ng Alaska, told a Chamber of Com- merce meeting that Alaska bush pilots have a “long record of service and achievement in the air age.” “Practical aviation was born in Alaska and California,” Jones sad, “where {liers first demonstrated the value of air travel and transporta- tion. It is true that the Wright Brothers' flew the first airplane at Kitty Hawk, but the practical worth of carrying people for hire was not known until such men as the ear- Lest pilots here in Alaska began performing services for which they now are famous.” Jones said he would return tc Wacshington, D.C., with “a more complete understanding of the needs of Alaska aviation and de- sires of the territory’s inhabitants.’ SCHOONER, ALASKA SUND, IN ST. LOUIS AFTER 11-DAY TRIP ST. LOUIS, Nov. 28—(®—Warren Christianson, 29 and his wife. Faith, 27, docked their homemade schooner, the Tantalus, here today after an 11-day trip down the Mis- sissippi from St. Paul. They are bound for Alaska, eight months and 15,000 miles away. Dick Richards, 26, of Winchester, Ky. and Willlam Kellar, 25, of Nevada, Mo., are passengers on the long voyage. A black cat and a police dog also are on board. Christianson said they undertook the trip just as an adventure, although he plans to settle in An- chorage and practice law there. He 1ecently graduated from the law school at the University of Minne- sota. The Memphis voyagers expect to reach next weekend. In colonel times, the branches of the witch and ores. hagel shrub served as|his mother, Mrs. L. M. Carrigan diving rods in searching for water of Seattle, who will visit here fo 1nn indefinite time. VEEP WILL |Afforneys for BEING 1950 Bridges Make CAMPAIGN Fight on Judge Declare Harris Disquali- fied, Expressed Bias, Shows Prejudice S8AN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28— Harry Bridges' attorneys had their | legal guns trained on Judge Geurge‘ s Harris today. Barkley is an old hand at key-| prjal of the west coast CTO noting party drives. He may come jongshore leader was recessed last up with a Democratic answer 10 Wednesday until today because of the charges of Guy G. Gabrielson,|the Thankesgiving holiday. Chief the Republican National Chairman.| gefense attorney Vincent Hallin- that the Truman administration iS|an filed a motion Saturday with spending the country into the kind|the U. S. District Court Clerk to | of doubtful security given poor-|gdisqualify Judge Harris from hear- | house inmates. |ing the case. Gabrielson teed off on the 0ppo-| #1f judge Harris on Monday does sition in a national broadcast iastinot admit our point, then we'll night, declaring: take appropriate steps,” Hallinan | “If we continue under the pre-|gajd, sent administration we are headed| Judge Harris has sentenced Hall- for a poorhouse state and, whilefjnan to six months in jail for con- the inmates of a poorhouse may|tempt of court. The jail term is to WASHINGTON, Nov. 28—P—' Vice President Barkley stars this week in a 1950 campaign warm-up | enlivened by Republican talk of the, Truman program as leading to a “poorhouse state.” ! Newly-wed Barkley, n(-rompnme( by his kride, is billed as the prins| cipal speaker and chief attraction | at a Democratic fund-raising din-| their lot is not particu- | larly enviable.” | Bridges, who came to the Umt::li‘ It was a departure by the GOP|States from Australia, is being| leader from the “welfare state”|trled on charges growing out of his phrase with which his party mem- naturalization in 1945, He is ac- bers have been describing what|cused of perjury and conspiracy. | President Truman calls his “fair| Two other longshore union offic | deal” program. iials, J. R. Robertson and Hen_xfy= Gabrialson laid down some broad | Schmidt, are being tried with him | charges against the Truman ad-|on charges of conspiracy. | ministration, among them that ft is| Assistant U. S. Attorney R. B. fostering unemployment, McMillan said last night that the During the week ending Novem- [government will oppose the move Ler 12, he quoted Labor Depart-|to disqualify Harris. ment figures, 1746200 claims for| “Well fight this motion, of unemployment compensation were | céurse,” McMillan said. “There are pending. He sald this compared|® number of technical pol‘nts in- vith 865721 such claims in the|volved. We do mot agree with Mr. week ending Nov. 13, 1948, when a | Hallinan.” Republican Congress was in charg:| In an affidavit filed Saturday on Capitol Hill. with the disqualifying motion,| —_— Erlqges cimrgsdd.]udzje dHurris ‘;ex; DOG MUSHER IS AT ‘preased bigs and prejudice agains CATHEDRAL BLUFFS, the defendants.” (By Associated Press) Bridges said in the affidavit: “Judge Harfls has engaged tni Cecil Moore hes passed Cathedral | Bluffs on his five-thousand mile| consistent ‘and ‘repetitive criticisms | of the theory of the defense andi of the counsel employed by the de- | journey by dog team from Fair- | fendants.” DEFENSE GETS SETBACK SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28.—43——% The defense suffered a double set- | back as the Hurry Bridges perjury | ;| trial resumed today. ! He radioed the temperature was 18 Y Lelo:’ wh:n the left pDot Lake, | With the jury absent, Federal| Moore said all of his dogs are|Judge George B. Harris said he liolding up except one that recently wes fling’ s memorandum opifilon fought with another and rece‘ved‘overrullng defense objections to the | an injured leg. Moore is carrying testimony of John Schomaker, the dog on his sled until he re_}(ormer Palo Alto Veterans hospnu:i covers in a day or so. }ems':.l:z'em"‘]ker The Maine musher says one otJ ! s ) o 4 s which prosecution witness, testified last r:;:g;fle;fl?:; ?&? :ggl:e:: ]t;e}week he had held Communist Party | 2 ! positions in the 1930's. 1 Cathedral Bluffs repeater station.| Bildges 1s_on 'trisl for defiving Because of the wolves, Moore keep,\}he s 66 Baa veorl b Thbsnbaritel his dogs nearby at night and ke:’ps{me Communist Party when he re- a fire going. He expects to reach\celv | o ed his naturalization papers in| TWhitehorse about December 10. 1045, | Moce! saysvx‘}vll(' ;ms geen t?:klrl:gf ‘The defense objections last week | slow tme while Bls Cogs (OUBHEN | ywere paged on the fact, that thel up but soon expects to be making | '\ H 50 miles a day. rived at Cathedral Bluffs from Dot | Lake over the weekend and took time out to launder his clothing. U. S. Supreme Court had rulsy |Bridges was not a Communist in | June. | When Judge Harris said he was | filing the mémorandum opinion, | ! defense attorney Vincent Hallinan jumped to his feet and said: “I would like to make on objec- tion before your honor files that opinion because on Saturday I fil- ied an affidavit and certificate ask- ing that you be disqualified from acting further in .these proceed- ings.” Hallinan said he thought that matter should be disposed of first. Harris replied: | “Mr. Hallinan, I have read your | ® affidavit and accompanying docu- | ® Iments. It is the opinion of this ® lcourt that the affidavit was not ® (filed timely. Also that there is no ® | showing made that there was a| ® good cause why it wasn't filed in ® the specified time.” | ® (The lay provides you must file| ® lan affidavit 10 days before a trial | ® ©|starts if you want to disqualify a ‘judge or else show good cause why o o e 2 o o WEATHER REPORT (This data 1s for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 a.m. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum 39; minimum 33. At Airport—Maximum 37; minimum 82, t UKECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Considerable cloudiness with an occasional light shower tonight and Tuesday. Lowest temperature tonight near 34, highest Tuesday about 38. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 & m. today City of Juneau—.04 inches; since Nov. 1—11.42 inches; since July 1—47.51 inches. At Airport—.11 inches; since Nov. 1—9.07 inches; since July 1—3297 inches. e 0o 2 00 00 0 0 0000900002000 . BURDICK LEAVES you didn’t.) | Charles G. Burdick assistant re-|" mganlinan asked if he would be glonal forester here, left today for|gajlowed to have the ruling on his| Ketchikan. He will be gone from |gjsqualification affidavit come first. | Juneau until December 8 on & For- | judge Harris said no and allowed | est Service business trip to Ketchi- gchomaker to be placed on the kan and Petersburg. | stand. | SCHOMAKER TESTIFIES i John Schomaker, describing him- ‘eelf as a former Communist, testi- Roy Carrigan arrived by PAA over the weekend accompanied by \ | (Contnuea on Tage SIX) BEFORE JURY | Helen Campbell. | several times because Thomas was | 1L | considered a main'f NEAR CZECH BORDER Miss Colleeno Delaney poses among the palm trees at Miami, Fla,, to publicize the January 2nd Orange Bowl football game. You can't blame the committee for overlookis lecting a Delaney to be “Senorita of festival. (P Wirephoto. wi (olleen ng a minor inconsistentcy in se- f the Fiesta” for the Orange Bowl THOMAS GOES WASHINGTON, Nov. 28—@—A jury of six men and six women vas chosen today in the trial.of J. pargell Thomas (R-NJ) on charges of defrauding the govern- icent through payroll kickbacks. It togk little more than an hour to seleef “the jurors, plus:a man and a woman as alternates. The trial then was recessed until | afternoon. On trial with Thomas in Federal Court is his former secretary, Miss Tae 54-year-old former Cnairman of the House Unamerican Activities Committee was indicted a year ago just after he had won re-election to his seventh term in Congress. The trial had been poctponed 2,000 DEAD IN RUSSS URANIUM MINE FIRE BERLIN, Nov. 28 — (® — 'The British-1'censed newspaper Telegrat aid today 2,500 pérsons perished ix. nium mine fire in the Soviet one last Thursday The paper; id it was one of the worst mine asters in history and charged it was due to neglizence. In an emly edition, 400 German miners died in| the blaze, which qceurred in a| mine in the Erz mountains, on the ayony-Czechoslovak border, near Jor anngeorgenstadt. In its evenng dition, it said later reports had; revised the casualty list upward to 2,007, Only 200 miners were reported rescued. The bulk of the workers, | id Telegraf, were political prison-, Telegra Thae American-sponsored Berlin rad o, RIAS, said it has received a | report from a reliable source that hundreds of miners had burned or | sutfocated in a Johanngeorgenstadt €€ gunboat. vrazium mine fire. | American intelligence ‘officers said they had not heard any re- ports yet of such a disaster. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 28.—Closiny quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 99%, Anaconda 28%, Curtiss-Wright 7%, International Harvester 27, Kennecott 49%, New York Central 10, Northern Pacific 14%, U. S. Steel 24%, Pound $2.80. Sales today were 1,080,000 shares. Averages today are. as follows: industrials 192,24, rails 48.87, util- ities 39.32, NATIONALIST WARSHIP HITS U.S. VESSEL WASHINGTON, Nov. 28—(P—The American merchant ship Sir John Franklin reported today a Chinese Nationalist warship fired on and hit it 12 times off Shanghai. The message from the vessel's skipper was relayed to the State Department by the American Con- | sul General at Shanghai. It said all aboard the Sir John Franklin es- caped Injury, The skipper said his ship was proceeding to Woosung, below Shanghai. The Chinese warship presumabiy was enforcing the Nationalist block- ide cf Shanghai and other Com- munist-held ports. The United States and other naritime nations have refused to recognize the blockade as valid. The Sir John Franklin is operated by the Isbrandtsen Co., New York. The cifcumstances of the incident were almost identical with the re- cent attack cn another Isbrandtsen <hip, the Flying Cloud. o The Sir John Franklin salled Fri- day, November 25 from Hong Kor*, for Shanghai. The master’'s message was radioed ‘o the Isbrandtsen Line agent at Shanghal. It said the vessel ' was not shipping water despite the 12| its. The message was timed 5 p.m., Shanghai time, today, which was early in the day Eastern Standard Time. The State Department announced the report of the ineident without comment.” After the Flying Cloud was fired on, a protest was made to the Na- tionalist Government, then at Chungking. The protest stressed the peril in which American citizens eboard had been placed by the shelling. Reperts from the American Con- | sulate on the shelling of the Flying | Cloud said the ship had attempted | to proceed, in disregard of mstruc-;’ tions ,after being halted by a Chin- | | One out of six auto drivers in- volved in a fatal accident has| been drinking. I3 p WIND, RAIN, FLOODS IN PACIFIC NW In Fact Northern Half of Nation Is Hi-Many Killed in Storm BULLETIN—SEATTLE, Nov. 28 The fertile Skagit valley in north- ern Washington State binced for another serious flood threat today after a weekend storm had claimed 22 lives in the Pacific- northwest. The storm shot across north Idako and Monhna during the night and then lost much of its punch as it veered north into Manitoba, Canada. Fourteen of the victims died in British Columbia. Property damage throughout the storm ary. was estimated in the mil lious of dollars, with Washington State the hardest hit. SEATTLE, Nov. 28—(?—Battered and reeling, the Pacific Northwest lought today against the peril of flood In the wake of a violent wind ind rain storm that left 15 known deatl as it slugged halfway across the northern half of the nation. Damage already was in the mil- ions of dollars. The storm whipped across North Idaho and Montana with gusts of hurricane force, and veered north during the night. The weather bu- cau at Bismarck, N.D., reported the storm hit Manitota, Canada, today instead ‘of moving into the Central Plains States. Peak wind velocity was reported 1'=terdhy“m5vfi"‘m.5 Mont., where gusts registered 105 m.ph. 1,000 MILE FRONT The storm struck on a 1,000 mile front Saturday—from British Co- ‘vmbia into Oregon. Hardest hit was Washington state. Hundreds of families were evacuated as the rofled waters of - the Skagit river in northwest Washington isolated five towns in the Skagit valley. Four other com- munities were threatened as five inckes of rain fell during a 24- “our span in the upper valley. At Mount Vernon, residents and ain-drenched sandbag crews of from 300-up men kept their fingers f'guratively crossed as the normally placid Skagit reached 2605 feet— carely a foot below the top of the city's dikes. RAINS SWELLING RIVER At 5 a.m, (PST), W. R. Whitnall of tho Skagit County Engineer’s office reported the river had risen only half an inch in the last three kours but heavy rains were sald to be falling upstream at Concrete. Whitnall said if the river continued at the 26-foot level it was feared the dikes might soften and burst. Water lay six to eight inches deep over eight square blocks of the city which lies about six feet 'elow the level of the river. Mer- thants moved their store goods to second-story levels. 250 EVACUATED Approximately 250 persons were evacuated by Army and Coast Guard crews from nearby Hamilton. Across Puget Sound on the Qlympia peninsula, flood waters re- ceded in the Skokomish river val- ley after forcing 50 to 60 farm families to flee. Several bridges were washed out. Seettle and King county escaped relatively unscathed although util- ity poles, trees and high tension | wires were leveled Saturday night and early Sunday. A 15 to 20 foot section of tlacktop street collapsed at a main thoroughfare to West Seattle, SLIDES IN BC The British Columbia coast was isolated from the southern interior of the province as slides covered the Fraser canyon highway and { *ains washed out a wide section of the new $12,000,000 Hope-Prince- | ton highway two miles east of Summit, B.C. A dredge carrying $20,000 in placer gold was torn from its moorings by logs and debris and piled up in twisted wreckage near Princeton. Seven persons died in British Columbia, six when their tugboat capsized off Victoria and one when he was swept into the raging Capi- lano river, Current estimates are that by | 1956 the country will have 24,000,000 television sets,